Patti

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Australian Finance Podcast · Patti’s Story: Moving countries & paying off $150k in student loans · 5 May 2022 podcast

you know, quickly save up.

So I did, I guess my first thing was getting several jobs.

So increasing my income streams and then just trying to limit expenses.

So that would be the second thing that I looked at was like, you know, living closer to campus or jobs or living in shared accommodation.

So at one point I was living with about eight people.

Like you just can't.

No.

So it was a four bedroom house.

So like couples plus, you know, sharing with a friend, like having your own bed, like single beds in a room and like a master room.

because this is what you got to do, right?

You got to hustle when you're in uni.

And so I did that and I kept my costs really low by like sharing meals with a friend.

So we'd like cook together and cook big meals.

And then I lived on like two minute noodles and rode my bike everywhere.

So yeah, just two main things, which is increasing my income stream and then trying to limit my expenses and my outgoing.

Yeah, so still at uni and then when I finished, so my course was about four years.

And so when I finished, I then accelerated my savings to pay off the loan.

My parents took out the loan, so it was in their name, but I felt like not the obligation, but the responsibility to really give back to them and ensure that I wasn't being a burden on them, which is one of the biggest drivers for me.

A hundred percent.

And like, I'm in a, like living by myself for the first time in my life and, you know, in a, in a big city like Sydney.

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